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David Nicholls Talks Adaptations & Why Entrusting Other Writers With Netflix’s ‘One Day’ Series Was A “Happy And Collaborative” Experience — Storyhouse
The prolific writer was at Dublin's Storyhouse screenwriters festival where he discussed his processes with 'Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson
“The joy of that was that they were both being very faithful and trying to replicate the feeling of reading the novel while at the same time embellishing and drawing things out,” said Nicholls. He continued: “The great joy about this last experience has been actually embracing that and accepting change and not saying, ‘No can you make it more like the novel’ but actually doing the opposite and encouraging them to fill out the other characters and invent new situations and write additional dialogue. Nicholls, who has written six novels including his debut Starter for Ten, is also a prolific screenwriter having co-written the adaptation of Simpatico as well as episodes of hit Brit series Cold Feet.
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